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Pennsylvania

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I have been in Pennsylvania,In the Monongahela and Hocking Valleys. In the blue SusquehannaOn a Saturday morningI saw a mounted constabulary go by,I saw boys playing marbles.Spring and the hills…

Shirt

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My shirt is a token and symbol,more than a cover for sun and rain,my shirt is a signal,and a teller of souls. I can take off my shirt and tear…

Jerry

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Six years I worked in a knitting mill at a machineAnd then I married Jerry, the iceman, for a change.He weighed 240 pounds, and could hold me,Who weighed 105 pounds,…

Under

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I I am the undertowWashing tides of powerBattering the pillarsUnder your things of high law. II I am a sleeplessSlowfaring eater,Maker of rust and rotIn your bastioned fastenings,Caissons deep. III…

Choose

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THE single clenched fist lifted and ready,Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.Choose:For we meet by one or the other.

Between Two Hills

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Between two hillsThe old town stands.The houses loomAnd the roofs and treesAnd the dusk and the dark,The damp and the dew     Are there. The prayers are saidAnd the people restFor…

Nights Nothings Again

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WHO knows what I knowwhen I have asked the night questionsand the night has answered nothingonly the old answers?  Who picked a crimson cryptogram,the tail light of a motor car turning…

Dancer

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THE LADY in red, she in the chile con carne red,Brilliant as the shine of a pepper crimson in the summer sun,She behind a false-face, the much sought-after dancer, the…

Night Stuff

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LISTEN a while, the moon is a lovely woman, a lonely woman, lost in a silver dress, lost in a circus rider’s silver dress.  Listen a while, the lake by night…

Aztec Mask

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I wanted a man’s face looking into the jaws and throat     of lifeWith something proud on his face, so proud no smash     of the jaws,No gulp of the throat leaves…